FusionSeq: A modular framework for finding gene fusions by analyzing paired-end RNA-sequencing data

Genome Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Sboner, Andrea ^a   Habegger, Lukas ^a   Pflueger, Dorothee ^b   Terry, Stephane ^b   Chen, David Z ^a   Rozowsky, Joel S ^a   Tewari, Ashutosh K ^b   Kitabayashi, Naoki ^b   Moss, Benjamin J ^b   Chee, Mark S ^c   Demichelis, Francesca ^b   Rubin, Mark A ^b   Gerstein, Mark B ^a,d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Prognosys Biosciences Inc   (United States)

^d Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ERG GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PAIRED END RNA SEQUENCE; PROSTATE CANCER; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SLC45A3 GENE; TMPRSS2 GENE; ZNF577 GENE; ZNF649 GENE; BIOLOGY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEOPLASM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROSTATE TUMOR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR CELL LINE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, NEOPLASM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 77958040520     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2010-11-10-r104     Document Type: Article

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